Pending Sector will not go away

[garycase]

Question for the group.

 

Would you rather spend $139 on a 3TB WD Red and use it to replace a perfectly fine 2TB drive, to use that 2TB drive to replace this hunk a crapola...OR.. spend $139 on a 250GB SSD to replace the 2TB hunk of crapola???

 

Neither => I'd spend $200 for a 500GB SSD 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4P02T78963

[mr-hexen]

Hi Gary,

 

1. I'm in Canada. Prices suck up here.

2. I dont want to spend that much money at this time

[garycase]

1. I'm in Canada. Prices suck up here.

 

I noticed      We did a 2-week across-Canada train trip last summer ... a GREAT vacation that we really enjoyed.    Loved it ... but it was indeed VERY expensive -- cost more than double what we'd spent the month before for a 2-week trip to Europe for a Norwegian Fjords cruise.

 

 

2. I dont want to spend that much money at this time

 

Understand => in that case I'd go with the 256GB SSD if you're sure that's enough space for your cache drive;  or the 3TB WD Red if you have any doubts about the capacity being enough.

[mr-hexen]

I'm currently sporting the 2TB Green drive and its got all of 50GB used. This drive DOES contain downloads that are inprogress or yet to be post-processed so capacity needs to handle that volume as well. Being said, I rarely D/L more than 15gb in 24 hours.

 

All shares are set to not use the cache drive, in fears of its impending doom. Although i will say, it is failing quite gracefully in that its working a'ok at the moment (I know, I know, famous last words).

[garycase]

The drive does seem to be working fine -- but with a growing reallocated sector count it's clearly got at least one area where the platter has deteriorated.  I'd replace the drive; reformat it; and use it to store some of your backups.